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July 08, 2023
If fancy takes you to Paris in the next few months – the fires will probably be out by then – then don’t miss the chance to visit the magnificently restored Hôtel de la Marine on the Place de la Concorde, and a jewel of an exhibition at the Al Thani Collection there, Medieval Treasures
March 03, 2023
Martin Luther was a theologian. If you read the Ninety-Five Theses he reputedly tacked up on the door of Wittenberg’s Schlosskirche in October 1517, it is clear his interest lay in the nature of sin, repentance, absolution, penance and salvation. Whatever else his wider agenda was – or became – his initial arguments were presented
January 03, 2023
The discovery of the Harpole Treasure gives us a glimpse into Anglo-Saxon England’s great women of faith, writes Francis Young
December 05, 2022
Roy Foster admires Mary Kenny’s latest collection of essays on 20th-century Ireland
December 02, 2022
The grande dame des belles-lettres talks to Serenhedd James
June 28, 2022
During times of crisis, we should reach for the Rosary
June 28, 2022
Scottish Catholics had to wait for nearly 30 years after their coreligionists in England and Wales for the restoration of their own hierarchy of diocesan bishops. It was not until the late 1860s that Rome decided that something definitive must be done about the state of the Church in Scotland. Writing in the journal Recusant
June 28, 2022
Hoax: The Popish Plot that Never Was by Victor Stater Yale, £20, 336 pages Titus Oates was a flat-faced con man with no credit or standing in the world. By his late twenties he had been kicked out of school, university, the Church of England and – after his conversion to Catholicism in 1677 –
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